Eugene "Bull" Connor was Birmingham’s Commissioner of Public Safety in 1961 when the Freedom Riders came to town. He was known as an ultra-segregationist with close ties to the KKK.

Saw Bull Connor. William Harbour, Freedom Rider: We got on the outside, they had two police cruisers and a limousine, loaded us up, and start driving, 1:00 in the morning.

Freedom Rider Catherine Burks Brooks said that Police Commissioner Eugene "Bull" Connor personally dropped them off and told the group not to come back. (Birmingham News file) Don't Edit ...

Remembering The 'Freedom Riders,' 50 Years Later Fifty years ago, ... In Birmingham, for example, Alabama politician Eugene "Bull" Connor ordered police to stay away from the bus station, ...

Catherine Burks-Brooks, who as a 21-year-old Freedom Rider was among a small group of Nashville students who kept the movement to desegregate public transportation in the South going after its ...

At 4:15 that afternoon, the bus reached the terminal in Birmingham, where the riders found themselves unprotected by commissioner Eugene “Bull” Connor’s police force. Mr.

At her home in Center Point, AL in 2011, Catherine Burks-Brooks displays the photo taken at the time of her arrest as a freedom rider in May 1961. By . ... (Bull) Connor on the morning of May 18 ...

Eugene Bull Connor, Birmingham’s Police Commissioner, planned these attacks with local Klan groups. He promised them 15 minutes to beat the Freedom Riders. Connor kept officers away from the bus ...

May 4 marked the 60th Anniversary of the first group of Freedom Riders setting off on passenger buses from Washington, D.C., destined for New Orleans.

At 4:15 that afternoon, the bus reached the terminal in Birmingham, where the riders found themselves unprotected by commissioner Eugene “Bull” Connor’s police force. Mr.